​Leader: Nick Edwards
Reporter: David Laurie
Photographs: Nick Edwards
Bird List: Alan Hughes

Firstly, a big thank you to Amy, our Pensthorpe guide who met 16 of us at 5:00am for our Dawn Chorus outing. It was a chilly, misty start (5°C) but with plenty of birds singing including Blackcap, Wren, Song Thrush and cawing Rooks.
In the park, were there Cattle or Little Egrets in the mist at Moon Water? Consensus was there were both. We found Little Egrets later but the Cattle Egrets had gone elsewhere, presumably in search of their favourite cattle.

Leader: Sue Gale
Reporters: Sue Gale 
On another beautiful blue morning we assembled in the Forestry Commission car park at Santon Downham. The first half dozen to arrive were dispatched along the river bank with Steve Chapman in
charge at 7.45. The earlier the better when it comes to the annual challenge of seeing a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (LSW). In fact, the rest of the group was only 20 minutes behind, and the first lot hadn’t yet seen the bird, although they had seen Mandarin ducks flying along the river. Soon after arrival Emily whispered that she thought she had seen it, and indeed she had! Many of us had reasonable but brief views in a fairly distant tree, of two birds, but they soon flew into the woods at the back. We waited for a while, and then decided to split up again, some of us waiting and hoping the birds would return, those who had seen enough leaving to look for Woodlark. 

Leader: Alan Hughes
Reporter: Jacquie Fenn
Bird List: Colin Fenn

A group of 16 members met at the Strumpshaw car park to start our walk at 9.30am. It was a very bright clear day with not a cloud in the sky and stayed that way all through the visit (thermals had been donned as a precaution by many).

Leader: Ray Gribble
Reporter: Emily Leonard

We started the day off just before 10am in the NWT car park at Hickling. We said our hellos to all and introduced ourselves to our new members who had recently joined the club. Ray explained how the day would run and we had an introduction talk from a lady who works at the NWT reserve; she explained to us what had been seen and what we were likely to see.
We split off into 2 groups, as we were operating at full capacity for the trip. Ray lead one group and Steve Chapman lead the other.
We all headed onto the reserve and towards the Cadbury hide.